Wife says new husband stole guns

An Athens woman told police her new husband took five handguns belonging to the woman's elderly father, according to Athens-Clarke police reports.

Talking with police officers on Friday, the woman told police she and her husband were living in her father's Plaza Street home.

The 82-year-old father had moved to an assisted living home, she said. The woman also said she had just learned her 45-year-old husband had a crack cocaine habit. When police checked the man's name against computer records, they discovered he had outstanding warrants against him from Barrow County. When the man showed up about two hours after his wife's complaint, officers took him to Barrow County.